[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#776063: dbus fails to upgrade rendering entire apt unusable

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

> This looks very much like <https://bugs.debian.org/771428>.

yes!

> > unstable. Please check which dpkg version is used here. If it is
> > between 1.17.17 and 1.17.21 there isn't much we can do about it. You

ii  apt             1.0.9.6      amd64        commandline package manager
ii  dpkg            1.17.23      amd64        Debian package management system

> > If not or if you aren't sure you can look at /var/backups/dpkg.status*
> > files. Find the one dated from before your upgrade and attach it if
> > possible (the file contains information about all packages installed

listed as 

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3623928 Jan 16 23:47 /var/backups/dpkg.status.0

so uploaded as 

http://www.onerussian.com/tmp/dpkg.status.0.20150116

if of any help

> > and in which version. If you don't want or can't (e.g. if it is
> > against corporate policy) make this public, you can also mail it just
> > to me – in case you find this acceptable as a compromise of course).

> /var/log/apt/history.log, /var/log/apt/term.log are probably also
> interesting information.

http://www.onerussian.com/tmp/dpkg.log.20150123
http://www.onerussian.com/tmp/apt-term.log.20150123
http://www.onerussian.com/tmp/apt-history.log.20150123


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